MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090109184A1
• Filed: 05/13/2008
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Han Su, Kim, Tae Hun
• Granted Patent: US 8,217,907 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications

Abstract

A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the mobile terminal are provided. Specifically, zooming in/out or shifting a display screen is facilitated. The mobile terminal includes a touchscreen for displaying a webpage including a plurality of areas, a wireless communication unit for accessing the Internet, and a control unit for shifting the displayed webpage in response to touching a first point of the displayed webpage and dragging from the first point to a second point on the displayed webpage, when the displayed webpage is shifted in a direction of the dragging.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touchscreen for displaying a webpage including a plurality of areas;

a wireless communication unit for accessing the Internet; and

a control unit for shifting the displayed webpage in response to touching a first point of the displayed webpage and dragging from the first point to a second point on the displayed webpage,

wherein the displayed webpage is shifted in a direction of the dragging.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit shifts the displayed webpage from a first area to a second area according to the direction of the dragging if a distance from the first point to the second point is equal to or greater than a predetermined distance.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit shifts the displayed webpage according to the direction of the dragging within a boundary of an area including the first point if a distance from the first point to the second point is less than a predetermined distance.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit further zooms the displayed webpage in and out.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the plurality of areas is configured as a column structure with each of the plurality of areas displayed in a different column.

6. A mobile terminal comprising:

a touchscreen for displaying a web browser configured as a polyhedron structure comprising a plurality of facets, each of the plurality of facets displaying a different webpage;

a wireless communication unit for accessing the Internet; and

a control unit for controlling webpages displayed on the plurality of facets in response to touching and dragging on the touchscreen.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein an enlarged version of a webpage is displayed in response to an input.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the control unit rotates the polyhedron structure to display a different one of the plurality of facets in response to touching and dragging on the touchscreen, the rotation in a direction of the dragging.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the control unit rotates the polyhedron structure in a direction of the dragging if a dragged distance is equal to or greater than a predetermined distance.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the control unit shifts the displayed webpage within a boundary of one of the plurality of facets in a direction of the dragging if a dragged distance is less than a predetermined distance.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the polyhedron structure comprises a hexahedron.

12. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a touchscreen for displaying a webpage comprising a plurality of columns on a column-by-column basis and displaying selectors assigned to each of the plurality of columns;

a wireless communication unit for accessing the Internet; and

a control unit for controlling the selectors to select a column for display.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the control unit controls the selectors such that they are displayed as tabs.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein each of the tabs is displayed near a corresponding column.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the control unit shifts the displayed column in a direction of dragging in response to touching and dragging applied to the touchscreen.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the control unit shifts from a first column to a second column if a dragged distance is equal to or greater than a predetermined distance.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the control unit shifts the displayed webpage within a boundary of the displayed column if a dragged distance is less than a predetermined distance.

18. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

displaying a webpage comprising a plurality of defined areas on a touchscreen; and

shifting the displayed webpage in response to touching and dragging on the touchscreen such that the displayed webpage is shifted in a direction of the dragging.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the plurality of defined areas comprises a plurality of columns and each of the plurality of defined areas is displayed in a corresponding column.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

displaying an enlarged view of a specific area when one of the plurality of defined areas is selected.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the displayed webpage is shifted from a first of the plurality of defined areas to a second of the plurality of defined areas if a dragged distance is equal to or greater than a predetermined distance.

22. The method of claim 18, wherein the displayed webpage is shifted in a direction from a first point to a second point within a boundary of one of the plurality of defined areas if a dragged distance is less than a predetermined distance.

23. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

displaying a webpage comprising a plurality of columns on a touchscreen;

displaying a plurality of selectors for selecting each of the plurality of the columns by assigning each of the plurality of the selectors to a corresponding one of the plurality of columns; and

displaying one of the plurality of columns in response to selection of one of the plurality of selectors.

24. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

displaying a web browser on a touchscreen, the web browser configured as a polyhedron structure comprising a plurality of facets, each of the plurality of facets displaying a different webpage;

receiving a touch on a first point of the touch screen, the touch dragged from the first point to a second point on the touchscreen; and

displaying a webpage displayed on one of the plurality of facets in response to the received touch.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

displaying an enlarged view of a webpage displayed on one of the plurality of facets on the touch screen in response to a received input.

26. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

rotating the polyhedron structure in a direction from the first point to the second point in order to move from a first of the plurality of facets to a second of the plurality of facets and display a webpage displayed on the first of the plurality of facets.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the first point is on the first of the plurality of facets and the second point is on the second of the plurality of facets.

28. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

rotating the polyhedron structure in a direction from the first point to the second point if a dragged distance is equal to or greater than a predetermined distance such that a different webpage on a different one of the plurality of facets is displayed.

29. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

shifting a webpage on one of the plurality of facets within a boundary of the webpage displayed on the one of the plurality of facets in a direction from the first point to the second point if a dragged distance is less than a predetermined distance.

30. The method of claim 24, wherein the polyhedron structure comprises a hexahedron.